I have sent Tigerlily a bargain photo - three for the price of one! (Well, maybe even four... ) It shows Child of the 7th Age, Thenamir, some other guy no one knows, and myself at a recent get-together - hope you'll enjoy it!

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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

Do you think it might have anything to do with internet security settings? I'll admit I'm only a computer nerd when it comes to certain aspects, and this isn't one of them, but could safety settings affect seeing images?

Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)

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I use Opera, so I'm not sure if this can be done in IE or Firefox, but sometimes you can set your browser so that it won't show images, or so that it will only show cached images. You might want to check that out.

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My picture got through. I was worried it wouldn't work. It is not the greatest picture but it was the best I could find within five minutes. The problem with me is that people always think I am younger than my actual age.

The problem with me is that people always think I am younger than my actual age.

I could see that. I'm the opposite - for some reason, people have always thought I'm older than I am. They started thinking I was nineteen or twenty when I was thirteen. Now it's not quite as big a discrepancy between my appearance and my age - I get twenty-one or twenty-two and I'm eighteen.

And cool, Tig. Take your time - just making sure I'd done everything I needed to do.

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"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

I've had both. I've been called all sorts of ages, plus and minus my real age.

When I was 18 I had a beard and a fairly adultish haircut and, especially when I was dressed up a bit, I was often thought to be in my mid twenties.

For a bit while I was 20 I was really clean shaven and I spiked my hair and, especially when I would wear a silly cartoonish t-shirt, I was mistaken for a 16 or 17 year old.

Yeah, I kind of go through phases. Right now I pretty much look my age. Maybe next year I'll be younger?

Facial hair does tend to make guys look older...and certain girls too, I would imagine ( ). I'm bad at guessing ages in general, though, so I never try with people.

Now I have to pop back over to Tig's page and see your picture, phantom. That's a cool pic. Got a certain indie, IFC Film of the Week, maybe Pulp Indie even, feel to it. And you know, that makes sense to probably about two of you out there, so I'll just be quiet now.

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"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

People have asked me if I was in college for several years now. Basically I think that was just to make sure they didn't offend me if in fact I was, but... Hopefully, when I reach that point in my life when I want to be called an age minus my actual, things'll change.

I'm still trying to figure out obloquy's... Looks like something I'd have a nightmare about. So I give it two thumbs up.

It took me a while, but ever since I first saw this page I've been trying to figure out who Phantom reminds me of. I finally got it, he looks like some guy I used to work with. Which scares me because I desperately hated that job.

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Sorry to all of those who's pictures are rotting in my inbox. I've been pulling 6 day work weeks because a person was fired, and I've been getting stuff up on Ebay to sell to make my bills this month, and I've been having a garage sale, and I'm planning a trip to Chicago so that I may job hunt and apt search... and, well, I've been a wee bit busy. I do have the pictures, though, and I will get them up as soon as humanly... er... ghostly possible.

Location: So near to Russia, so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, lots of miles from Vietnam.

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Ooh, new pics! How wonderful, thanks Tig!

Esty, your gown is gorgeous - and you did that by yourself!?

It's great to see new people revealing their faces although my images came crushing down. The biggest surprise was TORE's pic. I never realized that we have an own Smurf here at Downs! Seriously though, his new pic is really nifty!

I have on of those cardboard Legolas's in my closet, sadly... My uncle thought I'd like it...

Maybe I should pull that out and practice some moves with my sword.

Oh, and just as a note, the only reason my pic is funny colored was because it was so blurry that I had to do something to make it look better...it's taken with my camera phone, which can only do so much.

I think Oddwen looks very mischievous in her pic... And Esty's dress really is absolutely gorgeous...

Why thank you! Yes, I sewed every stitch of it myself (many of them by hand, because of the delicate fabric); I did have a pattern (by Burda) for cutting it.

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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

I think it was highly questionable and even improper to incorporate Legolas that way with the pictures of those Downers. As if we haven't done enough here at the Downs to hold the barricades against the Legoluvvers.

Why, it's enough to inspire me to start a pro-BD fan club and petition! The Truth about Lego is Out There" "Free BarrowDowners from Legolas Identity Theft!" "Stop Abuse and Impersonation Now!"

I foresee a glorious future. We shall be the Spittles--Stopping Personality Theft of Legolas Soon. The fangirls will have nothing on us! Of course, we'll need a photoshop pro to help undo all the copies of that picture! I'll talk lestat into helping us! I was okay with eyeliner, but this is a job bigger than I can tackle myself.

Oh, and, yes, while I'm posting here, I should say it's great to see those images of Child, Esty and Thenamir.

And I love Esty's costume. She is obviously a very accomplished seamstress. I'm just miffed that she didn't sew such a lovely outfit to meet me in last summer.

New Rule: Only one picture change up allowed. I've been so crazy busy that it's hard to keep up with updates. So, please understand if your pics that you send take a week or more to show up on the page. So, if you've already changed your picture once, then I guess you're stuck... unless you buy me candy, or bow down before me, or...oooo... buy me a pony! But, yeah, I'm not doing it to me mean, it's just for the time being, especially since I may be moving in about a month and be without internet for a while.
Please keep sending in new pics, though

I think we should all chip in to buy Tig a pony just for the wonderful job she's done.

To be so busy and yet to do such a fine job makes me feel slightly bad about my own laziness.

What type of pony? We could make a new breed for her, possibly by painting, or airbrushing it some colour. It might have to go in for regular detailing, but it would look awsome. I'll volunteer to do the painting, if someone can make sure it won't kick me or something...